Friday, February 15, 2008

SPOILING THE MARKET!!!

Every year, the day after Valentine's Day, the newspapers everywhere will pick a couple that has proposed in a romantic way and hightlight it nationwide.

This year, it's the story of this guy who spent RM40,000 on a billboard ad asking his girlfriend to Marry Him.Now that's all nice and romantic for you Romeo but you're SPOILING THE MARKET FOR THE REST OF US GUYS!!!

Okay lets do a little bit of imaginary history on how proposals were carried out in the past.

During the caveman days it probably went like this

You me get married! Here's your ring made of stone!

Then nearer to the medieval ages.

"Darling lets get married and fornicate so we can have children to lead the generation after us!"

Well okay, those were really pretty unromantic times.

Then it got more romantic where the guy actually has to not yet kneel but, put his hands together to ask for marriage.

Then fast-forward to more modern times and the guy is expected to kneel with a ring to propose.

That's a lovely tradition.

Then it became a trend for guys to kneel in public and propose to their girlfriends, another fine tradition.So much that now not only is almost every guy supposed to kneel down and propose (which is perfectly fine), but a really 'romantic' way of doing this would be... to do it in public when there are a lot of people around. The more the better.

If you kneel down in private and just the normal traditional way that it would get done, you run the risk of your bride saying"Hey... wtf is this?? You're proposing to me here? In my house? When nobody is looking?"

Now this is when it begins to cross the line...

Some people seem to like it when the guys make a fool of themselves in public at the expense of making it more romantic for the girl.You know sort of... if you're willing to make a fool of yourself for me then you must really love me kind of thinking.

So if you don't make a fool of yourself then you run the risk of your future bride-to-be saying"Hey! Why can't you be more romantic and do something more?"

And now we have the new winner here in Malaysia.Who spends RM40,000 on a billboard ad to propose.

So now by the time it's my turn to propose and I do it the normal traditional way.. you know in front of a moonlight scenery or something, my love of my life might turn and say"WTF IS THIS?!?!?

YOU ARE PROPOSING TO ME HERE???

IN FRONT OF A ROMANTIC SCENERY OF KL CITY ON A PRIVATE HOT AIR BALLOON?!?!? ARE YOU MAD?!?!

TAKE THE DAMN RING BACK AND COME UP WITH SOMETHING BETTER.... LIKE GET BEES TO SPELL THE WORDS "WILL YOU MARRY ME" IN THE AIR OR SOMETHING!

Another contemporary way of marriage proposal: propose in an airplane. his reason: that his love for her is on top of everything else, and that nothing else matters now that they're on the highest point possible on earth.

Getting engaged on V-day? NOT COOL. Spending that much $$$ on a billboard? GILA. I'd much rather a reception with some super pro wedding designer like Bill Keith or something and then go for a year-long honeymoon.

That is what we call waste money instead of romantic ...ur girlfriend will accept your proposal no matter how unromantic you are! If she truly love you from the bottom of her heart.For sure she will accept anything that u give her..That is what I call 'Love' and also not to let her to love you because u have money!although i know money is important *hehex

tee hee when i first saw the news,i went all "awwww" inside and out..then i told my mum "so chunted hor?"

and i got fired back in return (like i was the cause of it) -_-" she said..spoiling the market for the rest of the guys in the population..and girls will tend to compare and want more...poor ppl dun have to propose la..etc etc etc..

and yea 14000 alone is too much for a ring..what more the additional 40000 SWT

Hahaha....the twinpole is owned by his father, so the 40k is a "perceived" value, coz they are not able to sell the board so the son takes it and perhaps he pays only the productions (like RM3/sq ft). if not who in the world would spend 40k for a board but only 14k for the ring???

timothy i saw the intro of new feature in nuffnang but it's been days i can't get into nuffnang website (malaysia 1) and i have no place to ask for help T.T so forgive me to interrupt at ur blog here... help me

Hmm, not all girls ask for all this. If my bf did spend the 40K to propose to me like this, he will get from me. I would rather he save the money and probably spend it for the house or renovation of the house that we will need in future. Hehe... Anyway, boss you probably need to come up with sth interesting to propose. Maybe get babies to do sth cute and farnee as most girls love babies. Hehe...

After reading this in the paper my first reaction was, this guy have set the par high for the rest of the male population. Now all the guys might hate him and the girls are impress with him. I guess no matter how much ($$) the proposal is, the most important thing is that person you are marrying.That meant something right?